"Huh······"

"That's ······ so"

In the winter and December of the 14th year of the Han Dynasty, seventy miles north of Chang'an.

Standing in the 'Yuqu', which had already shown a general context, Liu Ying looked at the briefing in his hand, and couldn't help sneering and shaking his head.

Seeing Liu Ying's face, Yang Chengyan, who was standing beside Liu Ying, also took a half step forward with a slight hesitation, and looked at Liu Ying with a puzzled face.

However, seeing that Liu Yingman stretched out his hand indifferently, handed the briefing in his hand to Yang Chengyan, and did not forget to say at the same time: "Yan Xiang came to report that I had obtained the edict of 'returning Pyongyang to the Korean monarch', and Wei Man had sent an envoy to return to the court, saying: The dispute in the past has dispersed the Korean monarch's troops, and if Pyongyang is returned to the Korean monarch, Korea will be chaotic." ”

"So Wei is satisfied: temporarily 'represent' the Korean monarch to rule Pyongyang, wait for the DPRK monarch to gather the scattered subordinates, and then get close to the DPRK monarch to discuss the return of Pyongyang······"

Liu Ying's kung fu speaking, Yang Chengyan had already seen the simplified version, and looked at Liu Ying with a little seriousness.

"According to Your Majesty's wishes, what should be done in this matter?"

asked in a low voice, Yang Chengyan seemed to be afraid that Liu Ying would misunderstand, and hurriedly added: "If Your Majesty wants to send troops to ask for it, although Shaofu does not have a lot of cloth and ordnance, the matter of military rations should not be a problem······

Hearing this, Liu Ying, who was about to shake her head and deny it, turned pale, and immediately looked at Xiangyang Chengyan's confident face, full of banter.

Today's Shaofu can really be said to be 'different from the past'~

I think that at the beginning, when the former emperor Liu Bang was still there, and Shaofu had not monopolized the grain market in Guanzhong, Yang Chengyan, who was the secretary of Shaofu, was busy all day long how to melt all kinds of miscellaneous money in his hand into three baht bad coins.

Liu Ying remembered that at that time, there was a joke related to it in Chang'an City, saying that Yangcheng was named Jiuqing, but in fact, it was a 'coinage division' supervisor······

And this is not the most lonely period for Yangchengyan.

——In Liu Ying's previous life, after the death of Emperor Taizu Liu Bang, Shaofu first did his best, and even pulled the treasury to 'go bankrupt on the spot', so that he finally completed the funeral of Taizu Liu Bang.

Immediately afterwards, the regent Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant ordered: it is forbidden to mint three baht, prohibit the people from minting money privately, and change to eight baht;

In this way, Shaofu was first wiped clean by Liu Bang's funeral, and then lost the profit channel of 'minting money', and could only hope that the annual oral endowment could bring a little contribution to the internal treasury.

But after the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant ordered the abolition of the three baht money, nationalized the coinage right, and implemented the eight-baht coin, she also added: The three-baht coins minted in the past are also allowed to circulate······

In this way, although the numismatic market, which was destroyed by Liu Bang's three-baht coin, was slightly better due to the nationalization of the coinage rights, Shaofu was broken several ribs one after another.

- First of all, Liu Bang died, and he scraped the foundation of Shaofu's family;

- After that, 'three baht was banned', so that Shaofu had no source of income;

In the end, 'Xu Min used three baht', and all the mouths obtained by the Shaofu were turned into inferior three-baht money that he had spent······

This series of blows, how long the Shaofu in the previous life was relieved, Liu Ying did not know.

Liu Ying only remembered: Until the time when he was about to die in his previous life, Yangcheng Yandu, who was the secretary of the Shaofu, was still crying;

There are rumors everywhere inside and outside the palace: Your Majesty has died again, how can this be good······

And in this life, the hero who was once stumped by three cents stood up completely.

——In the spring of the year before last, the first emperor Liu Bang died, and the Shaofu took on all the funeral matters, but he didn't ask the prime minister's treasury for help!

After last year's 'recuperation', this year's Shaofu seems to have become the first dog in the Han family!

——Two months ago, the batch of military supplies that were sent to the front line of the north wall by Liu Ying was a little difficult, but it was also completed alone;

At present, this new canal with a total length of more than 200 miles has also been dug by Shaofu alone, and in two months, it will basically be able to pass water;

In addition, Shaofu also intends to officially start the construction of Chang'an City after the beginning of spring, and at the same time start the enclosure and planning of the royal garden: Shanglin Garden······

Thinking of Shaofu's series of feats that have been completed, are being completed, or are about to be completed, Liu Ying couldn't help but feel refreshed.

Because of all this, Liu Ying promoted the 'Shaofu government-run grain and rice', so that the Shaofu could monopolize the grain market in Guanzhong, as the economic basis for 'determining the superstructure'·······

"I can't remember what happened to North Korea."

Pulling his thoughts back to his eyes a little, he saw Liu Ying turning sideways with a light smile, intentionally or unintentionally walking along the twenty steps of the canal, in the direction of no one.

Seeing this situation, all the officials of the young government who accompanied Liu Ying to 'inspect' also stopped knowing each other and let Yang Chengyan follow alone.

"Emperor Taizu Gao died, and I am still young, and I have not yet been crowned pro-government;"

"In the Xiongnu, this is the time when the head of the Han family is suspicious and the court is weak."

"If I insist on sending troops to Korea, I will be suspected of 'putting the cart before the horse', or I may make the Northern Barbarian Huns light, thinking that I do not know about state affairs, and I am younger and easier to bul······ly."

Hearing this, Yang Chengyan only nodded thoughtfully, and then said again: "Your Majesty's intentions, the ministers know." ”

"Only now, the money and grain in the Shaofu are abundant, and the ministers should reserve the needs of the levy for the future."

"If there is a sudden war in Kwantung, or Lingnan, or Korea, or north of the wall, Your Majesty can use it immediately, and there is no need to suffer from the shortage of the treasury."

Hearing Yang Chengyan say something quite Versailles seriously, Liu Ying shook his head and smiled again, patted Yang Chengyan's shoulder full of happiness, and hugged Yangcheng Yan to himself.

"You don't have to~"

"Right now, Qing should also start on the four walls of Yuqu and Chang'an, and go to Lin Yuan."

"and for conquest, there is no need to set aside."

After that, Liu Ying didn't forget to pat Yang Chengyan's shoulder again, showed a very satisfied smile, and nodded to Yang Chengyan, before finally withdrawing his hand again and carrying it behind him.

For Shaofu, Liu Ying does have high hopes, but Liu Ying also knows what it means to be 'too much'.

-- The grain monopoly business, especially the grain monopoly at the Guanzhong level, has a very large profit;

But even so, Liu Ying clearly understands that today's Shaofu is not exaggerated enough to have the ability to 'reserve military spending'.

Let's just say that last year, the average yield per mu in Guanzhong was three and a half stones, and the average annual corn recovery per household was 350 stones; After removing taxes and taxes, there are more than 330 stones left.

However, there is a slight deviation from Shaofu's prediction of '200 stone per household to deposit grain into Shaofu' in the Shaofu: Last year, the average amount of grain deposited by each peasant household in Guanzhong was only more than 120 stone.

As for the reason, it naturally made Liu Ying extremely happy.

——After a few years of recuperation, a considerable number of people in Guanzhong have begun to build small granaries in their homes!

Liu Ying didn't know how these peasants pulled out a small warehouse that was enough to hold hundreds of stones of grain from a meal of corn porridge;

But thinking that in later generations, the Chinese nation could rely on a few thousand incomes to save a house, and Liu Ying was also relieved.

——The Chinese nation has always been the nation that can endure hardships and struggle, and know how to plan for the future.

The principle of 'renting is better than buying' is almost engraved in the genes of the Chinese nation.

And the people began to build their own warehouses on a large scale, which naturally means that the policy of 'storing grain on behalf of the people' in Shaofu is accelerating into the countdown.

For example, in Guanzhong last year, the average grain storage per household was 120 stones, which means that the average 'storage fee' paid by each household was only 12 stones;

Counting this storage fee, it is divided by the treasury of the Prime Minister and the Shaofu, and the Shaofu can only get six stones.

So in the next year, what is the income of Shaofu's 'grain storage on behalf of the people'?

The answer is: six stones per household, nearly one million households in Guanzhong, and the total income of Shaofu is less than six million stones!

And this less than six million stone of grain, two million stone has been drawn out and sent to the swallow thistle, which is used as a ration supplement for the garrison of the north wall.

To be precise, after the treasury allocated the basic military rations of 'two meals per person per day, each half full', Liu Ying paid out of his own pocket and added a reward of 2 million stone to nearly 300,000 border soldiers on the north wall.

According to the Han Dynasty's military ration standard of 'three stones per month and two stones for the people', nearly 300,000 pure combat establishments can eat 900,000 stone of grain in a month!

900,000 stones a month, 10 million stones a year!

In the past, the prime minister's treasury could only transfer 5 million stone of grain a year because it was "unable to afford the allocation of military rations"; the severe border defense situation made the Han family dare not withdraw a single soldier or soldier from the foot of the Great Wall.

After a long time, the nursery rhyme of "garrisoning the north wall and eating half a millet" has gradually spread all over the country.

From this point of view, Liu Ying allocated two million stone military rations from Shaofu to add food to the border guards on the front line of the north wall, which sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is to make those heroes look like they are barely full from half full;

Or, in addition to the two half-full breakfasts and dinners, plus a half-full meal, it can only be counted as a forty-percent full lunch or supper.

From this, it can be seen that today's Shaofu, although it seems to be at ease, in fact, it is already on the verge of the limit.

The reason is very simple: this year, Shaofu has an income of 6 million stones of grain and rice just by relying on the 'grain storage on behalf of the people';

The shortfall in the military rations of the garrison on the border wall was more than 5 million stones.

So, why did Shaofu only allocate 2 million stone to let the half-full border guards eat 70 percent full, instead of allocating 500 or even 6 million stone of grain to directly let the border guards eat at once?

The answer is: 2 million stones, which is already the 'soft limit' of Shaofu.

The soft limit, in the words of later generations, is 'spare money'.

In other words, the 'surplus grain' in Shaofu's hands is only these two million stones, and the rest of the four million stones have their own places;

For example, at present, the people are recruited to dig the ditch free of charge, the rations that need to be distributed, the construction of Chang'an City next year, and the needs of Shanglin Yuan.

And the reason why it is said that these two million stone grain is the 'soft limit' of Shaofu is because if necessary, the remaining four million stone grain of Shaofu can also be taken out.

It's just that if these four million stones are taken out, then the construction of Chang'an City and Shanglin Yuan will have to be postponed, and even the current canal will have to be searched and searched, and then find the treasury to be even.

When the four million stones are gone, it will reach the 'hard limit' of Shaofu, and if it is forced again, Shaofu will hurt its muscles and bones.

Combined with this reality, Liu Ying did not expect Shaofu to have the ability to reserve military spending for the next medium-scale campaign after only two or three years of monopolizing the grain market.

It's not that it's unnecessary, it's unrealistic.

——According to the calculation of 200,000 troops participating in the war, Shaofu has now prepared 4 million single grains for the construction of Yuqu, Chang'an City, and Shanglin Yuan, which is only enough for four and a half months!

If there is really a war in Korea, then the Guanzhong army will start from Chang'an, arrive at Yanji, and then cross the Yalu River eastward, I am afraid it will take a month or two.

Therefore, instead of letting Shaofu fight to eat milk, but only set aside the 'travel fee' for the 200,000 army to go out and go around, it is better to do a good job in construction and finish the projects in hand.

As for military spending······

"Supervisor Yang's order, but has he returned to Chang'an?"

Thinking of 'military spending', Liu Ying couldn't help but think of the year before last, the young government supervisor who was sent by himself to Wu State to reclaim the salt fields, the last spark of the Mo family: Yang Li.

Liu Ying vaguely remembered: After deciding to set up the 'Salt and Iron Captain', Liu Ying seemed to have a conversation with Yangchengyan and asked Yangchengyan to recall Yang Li back to Chang'an.

Liu Ying's 'noble people forget things', and when she mentioned 'call Yang Li back', she forgot about it, but Yang Chengyan seemed to be very sad about it.

"Your Majesty."

"In late September last year, Supervisor Yang ordered that he had arrived in Chang'an; Only at that time, the envoys of the Han Dynasty entered the court, and the first court was about to discuss it, and the ministers were afraid that His Majesty was busy with government affairs, so he did not make it clear. ”

"The head of the year Yuan Shuo was discussed, and Yang Jian ordered the ministers to attend the meeting······"

Hearing Yang Chengyan's words, Liu Ying's face suddenly turned red, and she coughed twice with a stiff expression.

——Together with the Great Chaoyi, Yang Li was standing in the Changxin Palace, and it was also on Yangcheng Yanbian'er, but Liu Ying was stunned and didn't pay attention······

"Ahem."

"Ahem······"

A few more dry coughs sounded, and Yang Chengyan finally reacted, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said, "But the minister will immediately transfer Yang Supervisor's order to this point for His Majesty's advice?" ”

But when Liu Ying heard this, she only shook her head slowly with a little tiredness.

"Not necessarily."

"This is out of Chang'an, but I want to take a look at the canal;"

"See you today, and turn back soon."

Dropping this sentence in a slightly tired tone, Liu Ying looked left and right again, and walked straight towards the chariot not far away.

Behind Liu Ying, recalling Liu Ying's words, Yang Chengyan's face gradually took on a little anxious.

"Yang Chengling is only a few years old when he leaves Beijing······"

"Could it be that you have been neglected by Your Majesty?"